"The Algorithm." It sounds like something ominous out of scifi – an AI character from The Matrix, maybe. It's the name for the proprietary system by which Facebook shows you content. And this element of social media has been under fire lately, even on the global political scale. Computer rules are invisibly determining what you see. And they don't necessarily work for you. Like a drug dealer, they're there to keep you hooked. And since they can be bought, they're also there to ensure publishers buy advertising to be noticed.
Okay, that sounds scary. On the other hand, you're sitting at a computer. You've got tools to make this work for you. So rather than process this information passively (which is indeed scary), take control. I hope we'll focus a lot on that in the coming months.
And that's especially essential with music. You wouldn't just buy whatever music was at the top of the Billboard charts and listen to that exclusively 24/7 for the rest of the month. So it makes sense to take some active role in the music you get from social media, too.
And let's be honest: right now, Facebook isn't so great for music. Artist pages lack basic tools like an internal official player. Then content gets lost amidst political news and baby pictures. Facebook has gotten loads of press lately over whether content shared by friends or news stories get precedent. One thing you'll never hear about, though, is music.
I can imagine some reasons for this. Facebook may be worried about getting slapped with licensing fees. They may be unable to monetize the music content itself (particularly as regards advertising). They may have internal statistics that show average users don't want self-promotional posts from artists they follow as much as they do baby pictures. Music content (heavily linking to YouTube, for instance) may run up against other algorithm rules that simply aren't weighted for musicians. Or it may be some combination.
What I do know is, you can control this.
Right now, pick a favorite artist. Hover over the Like button.
"Default" means the Algorithm chooses where (or if) you see posts from this artist. You can choose to see these first with other things that matter to you – both those determined automatically and those people and pages you select.
The notifications portion is now a bit confusing. Notifications refer to the little pop-up indications you get from Facebook, as well as those events listed under the globe icon in the upper-right-hand menu.
By default, it looks like it's "on." It's not: this actually is only certain Facebook Live video streams. So, if you're wondering why lately you've been getting interrupted with random video feeds you don't care about, now you know why. The fact this setting is on by default means that pages (as Facebook hoped) are using them to get your attention.
But notice the pencil icon just to the right of Notifications.
This gives you a more detailed dialog. Here, you can choose what you care about.
For my favorite artists, I've set this to notify me of events (at the very least, so I don't miss a show), and often status updates and links. A link, for instance, will make sure I hear about my favorite artist's latest release or track or interview.
So, wait, why are we signing up for this spam?
Music, on the other hand, I believe can totally change your mood.
Reason two: artists are finding they have to buy advertising just to be heard. And some are giving up. I think that's really too bad, and I don't want the only music links I see to come from artists with deep pockets.
I'm not trying to put Facebook Ads out of business. On the contrary, speaking as someone who uses them, the "organic" content (like you've done here) can still mix well with paid.
Lastly, if you do like and share content from musicians you love, you'll raise its value in the algorithm.
And I think that's worth it.
Oh, PS, if you want to share this article or take these steps with CDM, we'll love you back. But, for real, do it with some musicians even before us.


Feeling gluttonous post holiday season? This healthy and colorful salad packs a punch, and nearly everything can be purchased from Trader Joes. It's cruciferous, plentiful, and you feel better eating it. I love the crunch of the slaw, the richness of the avocado and pistachios, the burst of the tart pomegranates, and the sweetness of the currants, topped with the salty cheese. A win win.
Make the vinaigrette by placing garlic and shallots into a jar, add the red wine vinegar, lemon juice, and then slowly add the olive oil, whisking as you go.
Assemble salad. Place slaw in a large bowl, top with avocado, nuts, currants, pomegranates. Toss with vinaigrette, and add salt, pepper, and finish with shaved parmesan. And enjoy!


Larry Magid, President and CEO of ConnectSafely wrote an article that articulates student rights under FERPA and what parents should know to keep their children safe.
Steve McDonald, General Counsel for the Rhode Island School of Design and well known FERPA expert gives parent's advice on how to protect their student's data in an interview with Tracy Mitrano on SafeGov.
The UK Council for Child Internet Safety has released a guide meant to help service providers implement online safety measures into their web or mobile business models.
The U.S. Department of Education released the"Data Sharing Tool Kit for Communities: How to Leverage Community Relationships While Protecting Student Data Privacy." The tool kit will help engage civic and community leaders that wish to use data collected to improve academic performance while protecting student privacy.
iKeepSafe has made available a new SOPIPA badge for education service providers to help them communicate to schools, parents and other stakeholders that they are responsible with student data and are complying with the laws that govern student privacy.


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For a substantial percentage of people, that term means a building where religious stuff happens. For many others the term has come to mean an organization complete with a hierarchy and rules. In our day it can be described in terms of a sort of theater where shows take place. Good shows, complete with a wide menu of music and inspiring talks on self esteem, lots of "how to" sessions on financial success, and happiness.
Jesus told His disciples something monumental. It was said in context with a reply to His own question to them. He asked them, "Who do you say that I am?" After Peter answered, "You are the Christ the son of the Living God," Jesus immediately replied. Blessed are you Simon . . . flesh and blood didn't reveal that to you but My Father in Heaven. He then said I tell you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.
Knowing Who Jesus is, is crucial to knowing what the church is all about.
And the gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church.
I take this to mean the Gates of Hell will try to prevail and that the Church will be in pitched battle as we seek to implement God's will for His people. There is one other thing that I know for sure. Church is a plural word. Whatever happens to us or through us happens to us all.
Now this flies in the face of the modern perceptions of the "Church as show" or "Church as audience," or "Church as event." If we have to use a metaphor, perhaps "Church as a family" is more like it. Jesus called the Church His body. That involves a little deeper commitment than an audience.
As we get in this subject today, allow me to remind us about a point I made earlier--the gates of Hell are in battle against us. To succeed, we need each other. This particular local manifestation of the Lord's Church is on the verge of a move. We as never before will need to be reminded of our responsibility to each other and to our Lord.


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Run 70 km a day in the Gobi Desert in Summer? Sure, why not?
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Canadian Ray Zahab and Taiwanese Kevin Lin tackle 45 degree heat, giant sand dunes and meet nomadic peoples in 2300 km Gobi Desert run.
OTTAWA, June 13, 2013 /CNW/ - Canadian Adventurer and impossible2Possible (i2P) Founder Ray Zahab will take off on Monday for the Gobi Desert, on another extreme adventure. This is the same guy who ran 7500km across the Sahara, broke the speed record for an unsupported team expedition to the South Pole and was the first to run the length of the 1200km Atacama Desert. What's on the agenda this time? Ray and his 'Running the Sahara' teammate, Kevin Lin, will attempt to run across the widest point of the Gobi Desert in 35 days by running an average of 70km a day in 45 degree heat.
"Mongolia is the least densely populated country on earth. Our plan is to run 70-80 km a day, a day across the Gobi Desert, to experience, share and learn about the culture of the nomadic people, the environment and all of the beauty and the challenges of the Gobi Desert. At the same time, we will be testing our physical limits across this incredible landscape," said Ray Zahab, Founder of impossible2Possible.
When Ray leaves Ottawa for Mongolia on June 17th, he will have 15 pairs of running shoes, a tent and satellite communication gear as part of his kit so that he can share the stories and pictures of what and whom he encounters along the way. He'll also pack the Canadian flag that has accompanied him on his 14 impossible2Possible expeditions and he'll wave it proudly on Canada Day from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
Ray and Kevin will be interacting with the nomadic Mongolians through a translator, taking their advice and eating "local". The duo expects to meet up only once or twice a day with their support team, where they will replenish their water and food and upload video blogs of their experiences. If they miss the drop or their crew, they'll be camping in the desert with the emergency supplies that they carry on their backs.
The runners will be filming with handheld cameras and the expedition will include members of an award-winning film crew who will document every milestone during their 2,300 km+ journey across the Gobi Desert.
Along the way, the two men will encounter giant sand dunes, rare archeological sites, and even dinosaur bones as they battle searing heat, fierce sandstorms, and endless fatigue while running directly into the ferocious and constant winds that whip down from the Altai Mountains. Crossing into China from Mongolia will have its own set of challenges, and likely the team will have to do a 700 km round trip to get their passports stamped so that they can go back to the point of crossing in the desert.
Ray's recent adventures have included several youth based programs through the organization he founded, impossible2Possible (i2P). Youth participate in running expeditions and share curriculum with schools during their adventures- all over the globe. The programs are 100% free. On the Gobi expedition, Ray and his team will be collecting video footage, photos and interviews that will be made available to students in the coming school year in advance of the next i2P Youth expedition to Peru with the theme of biodiversity. The story of desertification in the Gobi will be shared via live conferencing, and available post expedition for free download. There will as well be a live website to follow - and schools will be able to download all footage for free following the expedition.
"I know that crossing the Gobi will not be easy, but I look forward to learning from another region of the world while challenging my body and mind," said Ray Zahab, Founder of impossible2Possible. "People ask me what keeps me going on the long days...I always say i am so inspired by the young adventurers on our i2P Youth Expeditions. In the Gobi, i'll bring their energy and enthusiasm with me."
Quick facts about the Ray Zahab's Gobi Expedition:
Departure date from Canada: June 17th
Arrival in Mongolia: June 19th
Start date of run: June 23nd
Estimated end date of run: July 21st
Average Gobi temperature: 35-45˚c
Average distance covered daily: 70-80 km
Type of food consumed: Protein bars, rice, coconut oil, food indigenous to the Gobi desert
Weight of equipment: 10 kg
Pairs of running shoes: 15 pairs of running shoes with different treads for various terrains
Calories consumed: 6,000-7,000 calories daily
Calories burned: 7,000-8,000 burned daily
Video communication technology: Digigone
Time zone: +12 hours EDT
About impossible2Possible:
Founded by Canadian ultra-marathon runner and adventurer Ray Zahab, impossible2Possible's (i2P) mission is to use the platform of adventure and technology to educate, inspire, and empower the global community to reach beyond their perceived limits and make positive change in the world. i2P adventures are designed to transport students to remote and contrasting locales around the world. To date, i2P has seen young adventurers trek among glaciers containing millions of liters of water in the Canadian Arctic, across the desolate sands of the Sahara, through the dense and lush jungle of the Amazon, traversing portions of the Bolivian salt flats into the mountainous Altiplano, venturing through the vast & expansive Thar Desert, and explore the Kalahari & Makgadikgadi regions of Botswana! As with all i2P Youth Expeditions, the team will push themselves beyond any perceived physical and mental boundaries they have ever placed upon themselves to discover that they are truly capable of achieving the impossible. - www.impossible2Possible.com.
SOURCE: impossible2Possible
For more information or to request an interview with Ray before, during or after his Gobi Expedition, please contact:
(613) 241-3512 ext: 221
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The PIB: Panacea to the ills of Nigeria's Oil industry?
ADEWALE AJAYI	 Mar 15, 2021
The Petroleum Industry Bill 2020 (PIB or the Bill) is an omnibus Bill, which seeks to "provide legal, governance, regulatory and fiscal framework for the Nigerian petroleum industry, the development of host communities and for related matters." However, there are a number of issues that need to be addressed.
1) Attraction of investment into the Oil and Gas Industry – According to the Nigerian Capital Importation Report just released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the total capital imported into the country in 2020 was $9.68billion. Out of this, $53.51million or 0.55% was in respect of oil and gas. Certainly, Nigeria requires a significant investment for the industry to grow. The country's ambition has been, for a long time, to increase production to 4million barrels per day and grow reserves to 40billion barrels. To achieve these twin ambitions, we need a significant inflow of investments. However, the concern has been that Nigeria is not an attractive investment destination for the oil and gas sector given the challenges facing the industry globally and the need for scarce capital to go to places where the return on capital is more competitive.
Oil is not good for any country if it remains unproduced. There are reports that oil demand will grow in the next 10-20 years and remain flat thereafter as a result of climate change, cheaper energy storage costs, cheaper renewable sources and green hydrogen. It is, therefore, imperative that Nigeria do whatever is necessary to produce its reserves more profitably.
2. Dual Regulators – The PIB provides for the establishment of the Upstream Regulatory Commission and the Midstream/Downstream Regulatory Authority. The arguments for the dual regulators are hinged on the need to reduce the span of control of one regulator and focus on the midstream/downstream and not just on extraction. While these arguments cannot be faulted; however, it is important that the benefits outweigh the cost, given the associated cost of running two regulators.
3. Incorporation of NNPC – The Bill provides for the registration of NNPC limited within 6 months of the enactment of the enabling Act. At incorporation, the Ministry of Finance will hold the shares of NNPC Limited on behalf of the Nigerian government. The shares of the Company will only be transferable subject to government approval, and in an open, transparent and competitive bidding process. The PIB provides for the appointment of 2 non-executive directors though the President will appoint the entire members of the Board while the Company remains wholly owned by Government. Thereafter, the composition of the Board shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Companies and Allied Matters Act and its Articles of Association. NNPC Limited will take ownership of rights to gas and petroleum production (including joint ventures) under the arrangements undertaken by NNPC prior to the effective date.
Read Also: Revised PIB won't guarantee Nigeria's energy security
One question that has surfaced is whether the mere incorporation of NNPC Limited will make it profitable and comparable to leading national companies such as Equinor, Petronas and Saudi Aramco. The resounding answer to this question is NO, given what we know of NNPC. There needs to be a wholesale change of mindset, the establishment of strong performance culture and institutionalization of good corporate governance and best practices. The earlier the government reduces its holding in the company, the quicker it will be for it to become profitable.
4. Continued relevance of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) – The major objective of the NDDC is to ensure that the 'sums received from the allocation of the Federation Account for tackling ecological problems arising from the exploration of oil minerals in the Niger Delta area' are effectively administered and managed. However, just like its predecessor, the Oil Mineral Producing Areas Commission (OMPADEC), the NDDC appears to have failed in discharging its statutory responsibility. Despite the existence of the NDDC and the Ministry of Niger Delta, the oil operators continue to sign and implement Global Memoranda of Understanding (GMoU) with their host communities to facilitate seamless operations and the sustained development of the Niger Delta.
Though the GMoU has achieved relative success, it has its drawbacks. Consequently, the PIB provides for the establishment of the Host Community Fund to which operators will contribute 2.5% of their operating costs incurred in the preceding year. So, the question is should the operators continue to contribute 3% of their annual budget to NDDC? Will the contribution to the host community be deducted from the NDDC contribution? Is the NDDC itself relevant given that the proposed arrangement in the PIB will better address the problems in the area?
5. Discretionary allocation and mandatory relinquishment – The Petroleum Act contains provisions discouraging discretionary allocation while encouraging mandatory relinquishment of oil blocks. Similar provisions are in the PIB. However, the issue is not what the law says but implementing the provisions of the law. This has been the major problem facing successive administrations in the country. The relevant question, therefore, is what guarantees are there in the PIB to ensure that these provisions are implemented to the letter? Consequently, all the stakeholders (including the media and civic society organizations) in the industry have a big role to play in monitoring transparency and compliance with the law.
6. Separate companies for midstream/downstream operations – The PIB requires upstream companies to incorporate separate entities for midstream/downstream activities – This will trigger significant issues for existing operators, especially with respect to viability of current projects, transfer of assets/liabilities, transfer of staff and related obligations, compliance costs, transfer pricing issues. This provision, therefore, needs to be revisited. The Bill may consider grandfathering existing projects or those projects in respect of which Final investment Decisions may be taken before the coming into force of the PIB. Alternatively, the government may consider ring fencing those operations without the requirement for incorporating separate entities.
While it important to pass the PIB speedily, it is equally important that the National Assembly do not just pass any bill. Whatever is worth doing is certainly worth doing well. Consequently, the proposal that the PIB be passed 'as is' and then amended subsequently through the annual Finance Acts should not be the way to go. Both the Government/National Assembly and industry operators should engage an independent consulting Firm to evaluate the issues and concerns raised by the operators and the need to boost oil revenue while enhancing competitiveness. This will greatly help to narrow the differences and enhance transparency and trust between both parties.
Adewale Ajayi, is partner & head, Tax Energy and Managed Services, KPMG in Nigeria.
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January 18, 2023 Podcast
Dom Morley is a British sound engineer and record producer.
He started his career in the late 1990s at DEP International Studios in Birmingham before moving to London in 1999 to take a position at Metropolis Studios. Here he worked his way up through the ranks, engineering for such producers as Tony Visconti, Phil Spector and Mark Ronson. It was his work with Ronson on the Amy Winehouse Back to Black album that won him the Record Of The Year Grammy Award in 2008.
Since then Morley has become a freelance engineer and producer working recently with such artists as Sting, Adele, Grinderman, Kate Walsh, The Police, Colin MacIntyre and Jeff Beck. He produced the Mull Historical Society album City Awakenings.
Moving up the ranks quickly as an intern
The small details that create a great experience for your clients so that they come back time and time again
Being the "fifth member" of the band
The most expensive mistake you can make in the studio
Establishing your creative vision in order to make the production process easier
How to set up a mix around the vocals
How he sets up his vocal effects to keep the mix exciting
Why it's a good idea to record singers in the control room with you
Committing to sounds in the recording stage
What he does to ensure mixes translate across multiple playback systems
To learn more about Dom Morley, visit: https://www.dommorley.com/


The next meeting of the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of WiE is coming up on August 22nd. Please RSVP to raleigh-durham@womeninediscovery.org by COB on August 18th to ensure we have enough lunch for everyone.
"Meet & Confer checklist" - a panel discussion on what to have ready for a meet and confer including strategies for negotiating search terms with the opposing side.
It's that time of year again!! We will have our elections for our 2017-2018 board at our October meeting. If you would like to run for a position, please email your bio to raleigh-durham@womeninediscovery.org by September 29th. You will be asked to speak briefly at the October meeting.
We look forward to seeing you August 22nd!


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The firms focus is on the design of facilities that enhance the quality of life at the community level. Clients include municpalities, non-profit organizations and institutions. Most of our work comes from previously satisfied customers.


I've always been a fan of fine dining meals. While I'd never call myself a food snob and will literally eat anything from your most basic burger to the most gourmet meal and be a happy little chappie, I definitely feel very at home in the latter category and very excited by meals with a touch of this and a mousse of that. So visiting Tom Simmons at One Tower Bridge was bound to be a great experience, and I loved it from the second I walked in.
Award-winning Welsh Chef and MasterChef finalist Tom Simmons heads this restaurant to showcase his relaxed and elegant cooking style. Relaxed and elegant it may be, but simple it is definitely not.
We started off the Tom Simmons experience with some sourdough bread, whipped leek butter, and some olives. I always like to judge a restaurant by the butter it serves, and generally if the butter is a winner, then I'm pretty certain the rest of the dishes will be winners too. This leek butter was an absolute winner – beautifully soft and absolutely delicious! Surprisingly, I even really liked the olives – and I've never been a fan!
From there, we enjoyed Orkney King Scallops, served with cauliflower and pork belly (£14.50). This was paired with the Leeuwin Estate 2014 Sauvignon Blanc Semillon. I'm not much of a Sauvignon Blanc fan, but this one was delightful, and the pairing wonderful. The one thing I am a massive fan of, though, is scallops, and I was overjoyed at finally having these again. To be honest, though, pork belly and scallops seems to be a popular pairing these days and I've seen it at numerous restaurants, but the combination doesn't do it for me – perhaps because I am a huge fan of pork belly and a huge fan of scallops, so I'd rather enjoy them in all their glory on their own. Nonetheless, I loved the dish.
Pork belly and scallop delight was followed by a beautiful Welsh Spring Lamb Loin with Jerusalem artichoke (my favourites), cavolo nero, and parsley oil (£24.50). This was paired with the Explorer 2013 Cabernet Shiraz from Australia. The dish was divine, as was the pairing. The Cab Shiraz seems to be the perfect blend to lighten this usually heavy red wine, and it went excellently with the lightness of the medium-rare lamb belly. It'd have this again in a heartbeat.
Next up was one more hearty dish: The Shetland Isles Salmon, served with Brixham crab, watercress cream, new potatoes, and samphire (£24.50)! This was paired with the Guy Allion Pinot Noir. I found the red wine and salmon pairing unusual as I'm far more accustomed to the lighter white wines with fish, but the pairing worked brilliantly with the fattiness of the salmon. The fish itself was beautifully tender, and the whole flavour profile superb. It came served with a side of fine beans and a side of crispy layered potatoes. The latter rocked my world and are probably the most delicious potatoes I've ever tasted – think, literally, wafer-thin slices of potatoes held together by the most delicious crunch.
The dessert similarly rocked my world: Apple terrine with puff pastry, homemade vanilla ice cream and the most divine homemade toffee (£8.50). Even though both the vanilla ice cream and the toffee (literally the thickest caramel ever) were out of this world, I was particularly impressed by the apple terrine: 50 of the thinnest apple slices you'll ever find, baked together to create an absolute dessert delight.
Tom Simmons definitely stole my heart with that dessert – and those who read my reviews regularly will know that's not something I say often. Needless to say, Tom Simmons gets a massive thumbs up from me – as well as a desperate plea for that toffee to be sold to the public so I can stock up and enjoy it at home.
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Sailing is a brilliant sport for children and teenagers, starting with fun, developing skills and with no limits for ambitious young sailors. Why not aim for the Team GBR Olympics Squad or become an Instructor and sailing leader.
Our motto: "be safe, have fun, make friends, learn!".
courses, sailing for fun are run to the international standards and guidelines of the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) and under the watchful eye of an RYA qualified Senior Instructor. Welsh Harp Sailing Club is an RYA Recognised Training Centre.
Come along on a Thursday evening about 6 pm from April to September and have a dinghy sailing Taster. Children can go out with a parent or guardian and an instructor in a GP14. Or if conditions are suitable, on their own - or with one other sailor - in a single-hander such as a Pico or Topper (at the discretion of the Senior Instructor on duty).
As we are a volunteer-run club, parents or guardians are responsible for their children at all times and one of them must be present when their children are at the Club.
After the second taster session, both child and parent can then join the club – either as part of a Family membership or as a Junior with a sailing or non-sailing membership (£10) for the parent or guardian.
We're unable to offer Tasters and training for young windsurfers this year. Our friends at Phoenix Outdoor Centre further along the Welsh Harp offer excellent introductions to sailing and water sports. Then you can then come and join the club and take part in our windsurfing programme.


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Doorway to Freedom: Directing your life.
There is agony in trying to direct one's life. We think we want to. We have a plan. We may know what we want to do. We may have expectations about the future. And we know that these expectations are right for us. We may have a purpose. We may have read about how "thoughts become things". So let's think those things into reality. The agony arrives when it doesn't work out. Recently I experienced this agony. And it was real emotional agony. I was feeling so restricted by money and by circumstances. I had been so sure that I knew what I was supposed to be doing. I had been so sure that things were going to flow in the way that I wanted them to flow.
Wanting something actually creates a barrier to getting it. How can that be? Because in feeling the wanting, we learn how wanting feels and experiencing it more, just means it get more and more familiar, so it stays right there inside. We stay wanting. It's like the wanting creates a block.
So some people create vision boards, some people list the detail of what they want (e.g. the qualities of a partner they would like or a house they would like), some people write gratitude lists, and some people use other strategies of manifestation to get what they want. Does trying to get what we want mean that we are in charge of our life and directing our life?
Be clear on your values. Because these will allow your life to flow. I don't mean the usual old-school values like honesty (and there are different levels to this!), respect, trying your best, goodness, working hard, pleasing people.
There are even deeper values that you can decide on. Values that can govern your every word, every action and every thought. For me these are inner truth, recognising the goodness in everyone, love, living in each moment. The inner truth is a deep knowing of rightness which is different to the mind saying what is right. Recognising the goodness in people is a real knowing that people behave the way they do because of the conditioning from their youth and their emotions……..there behaviour is not who they really are. Love is more than loving other people and more than loving oneself. It is being love. Living in the moment means the acceptance of emotions that arise (feeling them, not acting on them) and the ability to look at each moment freshly rather than from the ideas of the past.
So I experienced the agony of the emotions that arose when my thoughts went round and round about limitations. I allowed myself to feel the agony and the emotions that were under it. Tears came aplenty. And that was what was there is those moments. Until they weren't there. Until acceptance and love filled that space.


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Тишкино  — деревня в Моркинском районе Республики Марий Эл. Входит в состав Себеусадского сельского поселения.

География
Находится в юго-восточной части республики Марий Эл на расстоянии приблизительно 4 км по прямой на запад-северо-запад от районного центра посёлка Морки.

История
Известна с 1839 года как выселок, где находилось 10 дворов, насчитывались 23 мужчины. В 1859 году числилось 12 дворов, проживали 89 человек. В 1886 году называлась околоток Чедрасола (Тишкино) и лишь в 1919 году упоминается деревня Тишкино, в которой проживали 130 человек. В 1925 году население составляло 127 человек, из них 126 — мари. В 2004 году в деревне находится 16 хозяйств. В советское время работал колхоз им. Карла Маркса.

Население
Население составляло 52 человека (мари 100 %) в 2002 году, 36 в 2010.

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The power of Global Vision for Peace lies in our idealism and insistence on peace as the primary and overriding principle, and in creating innovative high-profile collaborations between entertainment, business and government to promote the consciousness of peace.
The inaugural Artists for the U.N. outreach is the Academy Awards 2004.
Drew Barrymore during the U.N. press conference on February 5, 2004 in New York.


Started selling on eBay in 1998, but never much as a business. My Amazon account was started in Q4 2012 after seeing a presentation by Chris Green. I started with $5,000 on credit cards to buy inventory and grew steadily over the next few years. I did Amazon part time and worked a full time corporate job as a purchasing manager for a small electronics company. In 2015 I co-founded Elite Product Sourcing with Jeremy Wilson and Brianna Moller Green where we provide OA services to other Amazon sellers. In 2016 I left my full time job and bought a small warehouse. My first year full time was 2017 and netted $2.9M in sales with a small staff and 2500 sq ft warehouse. In addition to the profit from selling products we had nearly $50,000 in cash back and rewards purchasing items online. We continue to expand and expect to do $5M + in 2018.


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Demand volume of electrical power in the al Ain region of Abu Dhabi 2010-2019
Published by Statista Research Department, Dec 11, 2020
As of 2019, the demand volume of electricity for the al Ain region of Abu Dhabi was 11 million megawatt hours. The total demand volume of electricity for the entire Emirate was 62.7 million megawatt hours in the same year.
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SCAD. (December 5, 2020). Demand volume of electrical power in the al Ain region of Abu Dhabi from 2010 to 2019 (in million megawatt hours) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 17, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1081129/uae-demand-volume-of-electrical-power-in-the-the-al-ain-region-of-abu-dhabi/
SCAD. "Demand volume of electrical power in the al Ain region of Abu Dhabi from 2010 to 2019 (in million megawatt hours)." Chart. December 5, 2020. Statista. Accessed January 17, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1081129/uae-demand-volume-of-electrical-power-in-the-the-al-ain-region-of-abu-dhabi/
SCAD. (2020). Demand volume of electrical power in the al Ain region of Abu Dhabi from 2010 to 2019 (in million megawatt hours). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 17, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1081129/uae-demand-volume-of-electrical-power-in-the-the-al-ain-region-of-abu-dhabi/
SCAD. "Demand Volume of Electrical Power in The Al Ain Region of Abu Dhabi from 2010 to 2019 (in Million Megawatt Hours)." Statista, Statista Inc., 5 Dec 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1081129/uae-demand-volume-of-electrical-power-in-the-the-al-ain-region-of-abu-dhabi/
SCAD, Demand volume of electrical power in the al Ain region of Abu Dhabi from 2010 to 2019 (in million megawatt hours) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1081129/uae-demand-volume-of-electrical-power-in-the-the-al-ain-region-of-abu-dhabi/ (last visited January 17, 2022)


The Seminole Junior Anglers started its season off with outstanding finishes from several of their teams. The teams competed in the first two B.A.S.S events of the year held on Lake Okeechobee on October 6th and 7th. The Saturday 10/6/2018 event, the Florida High School B.A.S.S. Nation Southern Trail tournament brought out 100 teams from throughout the state of Florida. The brother team of Davis and Bryce DiMauro brought home a solid 2th place finish, weighing in 18.03 lbs.
With this being their first tournament with the organization, they sent a strong message to the other teams that they better be ready to bring their A game this year. On Sunday, the 7th, the weights were zeroed from the day before and anglers took part in The B.A.S.S. Florida State event. This day brought better results for a number of our teams, and the organization as a whole had a very strong showing. Out of 120 teams that competed, the Seminole Junior Anglers had 7 teams finish in the top 25. Leading the way was the team of Grayson Ashley and AJ Alameda finishing in a strong 7th place. Other notable team finishes were team of DiMauro/DiMauro (11th), Hayes/ Grissom (13th) , Metcalf/Temperly (14th), Knoerzer/Windham (15th), Kinyon/Broxton (18th), and Bloom/Westhelle (21st).
The teams will continue their quest to qualify for the national tournament with the next event being held on Lake Toho on October 20th. The month of October will bring a volunteer and fundraising event with the anglers helping out at the Anglers for Conservation Gumbo Wars. This is a great event hosted at Fish On Fire Restaurant in the Conway area and is conducted by a huge group of volunteers for raising funds to donate funds for youth fishing programs and conservation based organizations.
Thank you to our season and tournament sponsors, Orlando Coastal Angler Magazine and Instant Insurance of Sorrento sponsoring this article allowing the accomplishments of this next generation of anglers to be shared with the Central Florida community.


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Easton PA's Economic Boom - 4:25
Sal Panto, Mayor, Easton
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Host Candace Kelley talks with Sal Panto, Mayor, Easton, PA, about his city's economic development boom, at the recent Pennsylvania Municipal League Annual Summit. www.easton-pa.gov
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At the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, Brian Magee, CEO of PUMP, spoke with host Sheila Hyland about how over the past 20 years, the organization has helped retain young people in Western PA & has become a platform for young people to engage in public policy and advocate for their community. PUMP.ORG
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The Raiders race out to an early lead and never look back in a 42-7 thumping of host Middlebury in Division I high school football action on Friday.
MIDDLEBURY - Rutland's Griffin Plante saw it unfold. He was ready.
The senior defensive end peeled off his assignment and read Middlebury quarterback Tim Goettelmann's throw into the flat.
"I knew he was going to float it to that guy and I just jumped up and grabbed it," said Plante, who returned the interception about 25 yards for a pick-six.
The fourth-quarter score had no bearing on the final result, but it did give Plante a dash to paydirt he'll never forget.
"That's the first varsity touchdown I've ever had," Plante added.
But the Middlebury Tigers probably would like to erase Friday night's contest from their memory, a 42-7 drubbing at the hands of the Raiders in a Division I high school football showdown that kicked off the second half of the regular season.
"Offense, defense, everywhere, they outplayed us everywhere," Middlebury coach Dennis Smith said. "They had a great plan, they executed and they outhit us."
Quarterback Ryan Moore threw for 175 yards and three touchdowns and also ran for 94 yards and another score, while his backfield mate, Dakota Peters, churned out 101 yards and one score on 19 carries to propel Rutland to back-to-back road victories and a 4-1 record.
Middlebury, which didn't score until officials started running time in the fourth quarter, fall to 2-3 on the season.
A tipped pass led to an interception on Rutland's opening drive.
But the Raiders immediately shook it off.
In a read-option offense, Moore and Peters guided Rutland to touchdown drives on its second and third possessions. On the first TD drive, Moore's 10-yard strike to Jacob Lorman and Peters' bruising 22-yard run got the Raiders close to the red zone.
Moore caped the series with a 11-yard dart to Eric Coughlin for the score.
The advantage doubled to 14-0 in the final minute of the first quarter when Moore chucked a pass to Lucas Hubbard, who went untouched for an 88-yard crowd-silencing TD.
"They had four guys open on that one," Smith said.
Near the end of the half, Rutland capitalized on a Middlebury fumble at midfield. A heavy dose of Peters — runs of 7, 11, 4 and 4 yards — gashed the Tigers' defense to set up another passing score. Moore found Malik Hendrickson on the visitor's sideline, and the receiver weaved his way into the end zone.
Rutland's opening series of the second half also yielded a touchdown: Peters' fifth carry of the drive was a 1-yard plunge on fourth-and-goal. Moore tacked on another TD on the next possession, a 6-yarder to polish off a 61-yard drive in six plays.
Moore and Peters combined to rush for 195 of the team's 221 rushing yards. No other player was featured out of the backfield until the score was 42-0.
"That's the nature of what we are doing," Norman said of the team's read-option offense. "Credit goes to all the kids for sure, they are buying in and when they do that, it makes your job as a coach that much easier."
While the Raider offense was in sync most of the night, the defense didn't miss a beat.
Matt Creed, Garrett Davine, Hunter Cameron, Willie Goulette and Plante were part of a menacing, tough-nosed group that refused to let Middlebury's triple-option attack find any rhythm.
"We knew they were a fast team and we're a bigger team, so we knew we had to hit them hard to play well," Plante said.
On five first-half possessions, Middlebury punted three times and turned the ball over twice (interception, fumble).
"We were trying to hit the edge or go up inside and they had guys in the backfield all the time," Smith said.
Plante's pick-six on the first play of the fourth quarter ballooned Rutland's margin to 42-0, and also served as an harsh reality for Middlebury.
"I didn't expect us to be this out-physicaled, and we were," Smith said. "But it's a weird year, it's how teams match up with other teams. Rutland matches up with our speed. We are just running on speed and they have size and speed."
Middlebury didn't do itself any favors with turnovers (four for the game) and untimely penalties.
Only trailing 14-0 in the second quarter, Goettelmann hooked up with Zachary Dunn for a long gain. But as Dunn was fighting for additional yards, the ball popped loose. Rutland recovered and promptly drove for another TD.
The opening possession of the second half saw a long Middlebury pass negated by an illegal motion penalty, halting a potential scoring drive.
"It was a big snowball and it just kept getting bigger and bigger," Smith said. "Hopefully we can learn from this, because there is a lot to be learned."
Wyatt Cameron caught an 88-yard touchdown pass from Goettelmann midway through the fourth quarter for Middlebury's lone score.
Tyler Buxton paced the Tigers' ground attack with 28 yards on eight carries. Middlebury was held to 181 yards from scrimmage.
Rutland plays host to Rice next week. Middlebury welcomes Burr and Burton.
"We are only as good as our next game, so we are going to enjoy this until we play Rice next week," Norman said.


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The patient, age forty-nine, complained of abdominal pain. She was taking both slow- and fast-acting oxycodone to manage the pain, and she also took antidepressants and a sleeping aid. She'd come to the hospital several times in the past year, always with the same complaint. This time, not feeling well enough to drive, she'd come by taxi. The veins in her arms were small, threadlike and collapsed, like those of a ninety-year-old or a recreational drug user.
Her medical file was huge, with reports from her primary-care physician, from local hospitals and from the gastroenterology department of a highly regarded teaching hospital across the state.
She told the ER doctor that her pain was caused by chronic pancreatitis--a permanent inflammation of the pancreas-- and that the pain had worsened over the past two days until she could barely stand. She urged him to contact the teaching hospital, whose specialists were familiar with her condition, and asked to be transferred there.
"I can give you fluids, but no pain medication," the doctor replied, adding, "You know, taking narcotics is really not good for you." He didn't call the teaching hospital, nor did he read the gastroenterologist's note stating that the patient was not drug-seeking and confirming that her pain did stem from chronic pancreatitis.
Chronic pancreatitis often occurs in alcoholics and drug users, but in my mother's case it was caused by a rare birth defect in her pancreas anatomy. When the pancreas becomes inflamed, the digestive enzymes it secretes attack the organ itself. In response, the organ's damaged nerves send out sharp, persistent jabs of pain that worsen whenever it's jostled or stressed, as in walking or eating.
It was 2:00 pm when Mom's number popped up on my phone. I was walking to my organic-chemistry lab at the university where I was in my senior year of premedical studies. We were going to isolate the red pigment lycopene from tomato-paste samples. After that, I planned to park myself somewhere and study for the next morning's animal-physiology exam.
I pressed "Answer."
"Christina, don't freak out--but I'm at the hospital again," said my mother's voice. I sucked in a breath.
"The pain isn't going away?" I asked. "Do they believe you?" Walking into the science building, I waved to a friend, then ducked into an alcove by the lab door.
"No." I heard her exhale, then start to cry. The sound felt like a punch to my diaphragm.
"Let me talk to them," I said. "Are they sending you up to your gastroenterologist?"
It had been almost three years since my mother developed pancreatitis. At first her attacks happened only sporadically; I spent the summer before sophomore year shuttling her to appointments and sitting in hospital rooms, watching reality shows while she received her fluids and nutrition through tubes. My father was out of the picture, and my younger sister (and only sibling) is intellectually disabled, so all of the caretaking fell to me.
My mother's bouts of pain started to come every month, then became constant. Throughout all of this, she worked full-time as an engineer for an aeronautics lab while also taking care of my younger sister.
The pain was controlled by prescription narcotics--until it wasn't anymore. My mother became a shell of her former self, barely able to load the dishwasher, much less work. She sank into depression and had trouble sleeping. Approved for surgery to repair or remove her pancreas, she began the nine-month wait to reach the top of the surgeons' list.
While waiting, Mom tried to manage her pain by not eating solid foods, lying on her stomach or lifting heavy objects. When these measures failed, she had no choice but seek relief at the local hospital.
"Christina, they're just sending me home. I can't do this, I hurt so much."
"I know, Mom. I know."
I peered through the lab window to where my professor was setting up test tubes. He saw me and waved.
"Can one of your friends drive you to the teaching hospital?" I said. "If not, I'll fly home tonight." This would mean a 900-mile cross-country trek--and missing tomorrow's exam.
On the other end of the line, I heard her ask the nurse, "Why don't you believe me?"
To me, she said, "I'll call someone. I have to go, they're sending me home. I'll text you when I get a ride."
She hung up, and I walked into my lab.
There I did what thousands of organic-chemistry students do every semester: I went through the motions of pipetting substances into test tubes, weighing them and transferring them into new test tubes.
Weighing the samples, I reflected that it was easy to view each one as identical with all the rest and to prepare it using the same methods and shortcuts that had worked countless times before. I could understand how medical professionals might do the same with their patients--how, looking at my mother, they might see a patient like countless others who'd complained of pain without necessarily having it.
But she's not one of those patients, I thought. As I pictured my mother's suffering at the hands of doctors who could have eased her pain, but chose not to, I felt helpless and furious.
After college, while working as an EMT, I would encounter plenty of patients who were classified as "drug-seeking," "oversensitive" or "complainers," including one Vietnam veteran whose nursing-home attendants had ignored his complaints of heel pain; half of his heel came away with the bandage I removed from his foot.
Whenever I felt tired at the end of a long shift, and disinclined to give a patient a full exam because I suspected that he was drug-seeking, I tried hard to remind myself what it's like to be on the other side.
Eventually, I decided not to go to medical school and stopped working as an EMT. I found it difficult to shoulder the burden of being responsible for a patient's life, and I had to admit that I lacked the knack for caring for strangers. Without the strong emotional attachment that I'd felt for my mother, I found myself becoming impatient when they complained, or when I had to endlessly carry out routine procedures, as medical caregiving requires.
I still haven't forgotten how easy it is, as a clinician, to see the symptoms first and the patient second, and to reach quick conclusions based on previous experience. How can I forget, when just months ago I had to help my mother contend with a doctor who, despite the chart in his hand and the eleven-inch scar across her abdomen, refused to believe that she'd had her pancreas removed?
But I have to keep hoping that, as hard as it can be, my mother's caregivers, and others like them, will find a way to keep an open mind and an open heart.
Because I also can't forget what it felt like to be a twenty-year-old listening helplessly to her mother cry, a thousand miles away, because she was hurting, and nobody else would listen.
Christina Phillips is a producer for the live, local call-in news program The Exchange on New Hampshire Public Radio. She received a BS in biology from Furman University, in South Carolina, and an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of South Carolina. While attending graduate school, she worked as an EMT. Her works have been published in The Rumpus and 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction. "I love to write about science--especially human physiology and genetics--using personal narrative and storytelling. After talking to a medical-resident friend about his experiences with drug-seeking patients in the emergency room, I wanted to share this story."
# Dagmar Friedman 2017-02-11 13:53
Deeply moving and important. So wish all health care providers took the time to truly listen to patients and try to understand before treating.
# Patti Clevenson 2017-02-11 08:56
Your story beautifully illustrated the other side of the pain dilemma we are now facing in this country. The pendulum has swung to the side of avoid pain control because you might get an addiction. I hear it all the time in my work as a pharmacist. Life is not supposed to be easy. You can tolerate a certain level of pain. Meanwhile patients suffer and turn to street drugs to gain control of their lives. The pendulum will swing back eventually. Too late for many.
That we now can dispense naloxone to anyone is just a sign that the street drugs are out of control and killing innocent folks.
# Henry Schneiderman M 2017-02-11 21:21
Just wanted to add another voice in support. Yes, we have an enormous problem with opiate abuse and street drug abuse. But at the same time we demonize and underuse these drugs, AND disrespect those who need them for control of pain whose severity no attentive person could doubt. The system fails patients all too often. I wish the author had gone on to med school, because hers is the outlook that the profession needs. That said, one can only do what is personally bearable and this work is not possible for some of those wonderful persons who possess loads of brains and compassion.
# Pris Campbell 2017-02-11 06:02
This stiry resonates with me, too. I was a clinical psychlogist, an active sailer and biker until I woke up one day unable to walk straight, pain all through my body, dizziness, debilitating fatigue, inability to sleep, cognitive confusion and short term memory loss, all of which were finally diagnosed as ME/CFS. In the early years I tried deparately to find help but was told repeatedly that it was all in my head. I realized then that I was truly slone and only a few doctors I found later took me seriously and tried to help however they could. I feel for your mother. It boggles my mind that this hospitsl wouldn't even contact her doctors at the other hospital,
# Yvonne Sliep 2017-02-11 01:33
Christina you put a human face to both ends of the problem. The only way to build in mindful rresponse is to keep a finger on the pulse. To make it visible. To remind us and then to act differentlt.
# Bj 2017-02-10 22:36
So sorry for your mother's bad experiences. Alas, a similar problem is happening in hospitals all over the country. Been there, done that. It is so demeaning for someone in need of help to ignored or not believed. I even asked the ER doc if he would have treated me differently if I had medical jewelry explaining my condition. He said no. I believe him because he wouldn't even consider the information in my chart from a previous visit. Maybe instead of just blaming doctors for prescribing too many narcotics, they should help doctors learn how to teach people with respect and take that extra step to decide who really needs pain meds or other resolution for their pain.
# Ronna Edelstein 2017-02-10 18:49
Christina, your story about your mom resonated with me. I have spent the past eight years in chronic pain due to four unsuccessful jaw/joint surgeries and bone now growing over the prosthetic device in my jaw. I worry that doctors see me as a stereotype--a complaining senior citizen. However, I assure all physicians and health care providers that pain is real--and that real pain diminishes a person's quality of life.
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Halifax District Hospital opened its doors to the community on January 3, 1928. Founded by the state legislature, the hospital began operations with 125 licensed beds. During World War II, the hospital became a convalescent facility. In 1947, it was remodeled and returned to the community as an acute care general hospital. In 1985, the hospital was designated as the area's only Level II Trauma Center and changed its name to Halifax Medical Center. In 2007 Halifax Health – Medical Center of Port Orange opened to provide access to residents on the south side of Volusia County. The France Tower was competed in 2009, at which time, many additional services were added, and the Halifax Health Medical Center of Deltona opened in 2020 to round out the three hospital system of care.
Today, Halifax Health is rated one of the 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals™ in the United States by IBM Watson Health™, Halifax Health serves Volusia and Flagler counties, providing a continuum of healthcare services through a network of organizations including a tertiary hospital, two community hospitals, an urgent care, psychiatric services, a cancer treatment center with five outreach locations, the area's largest hospice, a center for inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, primary care walk-in clinics, a clinic specializing in women's health, a pediatric care community clinic, three children's medical practices, a home healthcare agency, and an exclusive provider organization. Halifax Health offers the area's only Level II Trauma Center, Comprehensive Stroke Center, Center for Transplant Services, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Child and Adolescent Behavioral Services, complete Neurosurgical Services, OB Emergency Department and Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that cares for babies born earlier than 28 weeks.
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Artist Edith Brown had no intentions of becoming a painter. The designer was contented with selling frames and clothing with motivational quotes, but all that changed after she attended a Christian retreat in Montego Bay two years ago.
She has no formal training in the arts or painting, but that did not stop her from amassing several abstract pieces. She said her work then began to attract the attention of friends. This was enough to inspire her to host a showcase that December at Devon House in St Andrew, where she sold 90 pieces.
A former student of Trench Town High School, Brown holds an associate degree in business administration from the Caribbean Institute of Business.
She now looks towards promoting her brand. This, she says, can be difficult in the Jamaican landscape.
"I want my work to not only be known locally but also internationally. I do my postings on social media — the onus is really on the individual to push yourself and get out there. I want to earn from my art; there's a lot of money to be made from this business. God said the gift you have will open doors for you. It's sad to say, but for me, the international platform is much more easier and friendlier," said Brown.
Despite holding a 9-to-5 job in marketing, Brown hopes to fully engage her artistic passions.
She hopes to be a part of the Liguanea Art Festival in December. For now, she is preparing a collection to showcase at the Agora Gallery in New York where her pieces were recently accepted for presentation.


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Parallel Legal Systems Don't Fit (Let Canada's example be a warning to us!)
The Vancouver Sun ^ | December 26, 2003 | Unattributed
Posted on 01/01/2004 3:12:26 PM PST by quidnunc
Mass immigration is making the West's once culturally homogenous liberal states increasingly diverse.
As the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has observed, this demographic shift imposes fragmentary pressures as many citizens, identifying more with their particular ethnic or religious group rather than with the state as a whole, make demands that conflict with traditional liberalism.
"As the country gets more diverse, we are more and more acutely aware of the divergences in our conceptions of the good life," he says in a 1994 essay.
This politics of fragmentation seems to be the choice of some members of Canada's Islamic community. Mohamed Elmasry, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, argued earlier this year that Canada needs "a multiplicity of laws" to accommodate different groups when their moral standards clash.
More recently, Muslim leaders agreed to set up an Islamic Institute of Civil Justice to oversee tribunals that would arbitrate marital breakups and other civil disputes between Muslims on the basis of shariah, or Islamic law. Mr. Elmasry says the tribunals, which would include imams, elders and lawyers, will provide Muslims with the means to settle civil disputes out of court according to their beliefs. They would be voluntary, and the ruling would be submitted to the courts for ratification if necessary.
Not everyone is so sanguine. Robert Martin, a law professor at the University of Western Ontario, says special legal institutions based on race and gender are moving Canada away from liberal traditions of the equality of all citizens before the law. Shariah tribunals extend this idea, effectively establishing a parallel legal system based on religion, which he believes will lead to "an apartheid-based legal system."
Liberalism holds that the principles of individual freedom and equality before the law take precedence over any collective goals that members of a particular group might claim for themselves. Shariah seemingly challenges these secular principles, not least because it applies to much more than a strictly legal notion of the law: As an expression of God's will, it includes customs and manners Muslims are obliged to accept.
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(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Extended News; Philosophy
1 posted on 01/01/2004 3:12:27 PM PST by quidnunc
To: quidnunc
If Canada doesn't turn this policy around immediately, she is doomed. I honestly can't imagine how anybody with any sense could be so deluded to participate in this National Death Wish.
We had better start seriously thinking which Provinces we will take as additional States in the Union, and which borders we need to consider fortifying.
If you think the French separatists were bad, hang around a while as the Muslims take over and drive decent Canadians across our borders as refugees and civil war erupts!
2 posted on 01/01/2004 3:26:07 PM PST by Gritty ("Religion of Peace, my @$$!")
Well, many Muslim Countries have separate courts for Muslims and non-muslims. In Egypt, these courts are similar to Surrogate's Courts. Nigeria's southern regions have religious civil and criminal courts. Pakistan has criminal laws that only apply to Muslims. Many other countries have independent, nongovernmental, religious courts or police. In some Jewish groups in the US, they religious divorces (the couple goes through a Beth Din, with a rabbi, and then have a Get written. A Get is a divorce document the husband gives to the wife. There may also be a ritual of seperation,, though as far as I know (meaning in New York) the state courts must still dissolve the marriage civilly (in New York, I believe in all cases, the civil divorce preceeds the Get, but you'd want to settle the terms first to be sure that the husband would give the Get.)
3 posted on 01/01/2004 3:35:40 PM PST by NYFriend
The early medieval Popes had a similar arrangement beginning with the Roman Emperor Constantine. It was a constant problem as western European nation-states emerged and culminated with the violent 15-17th century protestant reformation(s).
The pandering Canadian leaders are ingnorant or negligent or both. They must go and the dual policy rescinded.
4 posted on 01/01/2004 3:36:33 PM PST by Jacquerie (Democrats soil the institutions they control)
To: Canadian Outrage
Pinging...
5 posted on 01/01/2004 3:51:16 PM PST by Lucy Lake
This is the chickens of uncontrolled immigration and multiculturalism coming home to roost.
6 posted on 01/01/2004 4:18:52 PM PST by Paleoguy
Canada has been "doomed" as a nation since 1982 when Pierre Trudeau was permitted to impose his so-called "Charter of Rights and Freedoms" as its constitution.
Once institutionalized pandering to every imaginable special interest at the majority's expense was coupled with and an unelected and unaccountable judiciary which holds itself above the peoples' elected representatives, Canada ceased to exist as a free, or even potentially, free nation.
Since no reforms can occur without the judiciary's consent, wiley socialist Trudeau essentially put in place the national equivalent of a corporate "poison pill" and left a once proud land as little more than cautionary example to those living elsewhere who value personal liberties.
The judges and their Liberal political allies will never overthrow the Charter because to do so will never serve their elite and selfish interests. Relief and a return to democracy can only be achieved through the wholesale substitution of a morally superior document in its place.
God Bless America and The United States' Constitution !!!
7 posted on 01/01/2004 4:25:56 PM PST by GMMAC ( lots of terror cells in Canada - I'll be waving my US flag when the Marines arrive!)
To: Gritty
That is the MOST ludicrous thing I have read in a while. !! Personally, I'm so sick of immigrants I could hurl. But these types of things are the result of the Country being run by FEDERAL Liberals. Liberals = destruction. They destroy everything that is decent, just and Godly. I'm of the opinion that this Country, with the exception of a couple of Provinces is doomed anyway. Where has anyone ever seen Socialism be anything but a failure?
8 posted on 01/01/2004 4:35:42 PM PST by Canadian Outrage (All us Western Canuks belong South!!)
Incidentally, the LARGEST ISLAMIC population in North America resides in Quebec.!!
This doesn't surprise me in the least. I rather assumed they would take over there first.
10 posted on 01/01/2004 5:39:40 PM PST by Gritty (If we won't deport illegal aliens, maybe deporting American citizens on welfare will save money?)
Islam Fastest Growing Religion In Canada: Census
Muslims in Canada are on the rise, according to the latest census
WASHINGTON, May 15 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The number of Muslims has thrived in Canada as a census shows that Islam has become the number one non-Christian faith in Quebec and Canada as a whole, a leading Canadian newspaper reported Wednesday, May 14.
The number of Quebec Muslims increased by almost 1.5 times between 1991 and 2001, The Montreal Gazette said, quoting the 2001 Canadian census made public by the official Statistics Canada on Tuesday, May 13.
The census attributed the obvious increase to Muslims immigration from south Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, making Islam the fastest growing religion in the country.
It also showed that the 108,620 Muslims in Quebec were up by 141.8 percent from a decade earlier.
Two years ago, Muslims made up only 2 per cent of this country's population, the census said.
"Now Islam is going to be a Western religion and we look forward to making a positive contribution. We hope that this will help to bring the world closer together," the Gazette quoted as saying Salaam Elmenyawi, chairperson of the Muslim Council of Montreal and a chaplain at Concordia University.
Bashir Hussain, chairperson of the Montreal Chapter of the Council of Muslim Communities in Canada, remembers when there were only a handful of Muslims in Montreal in the early 1960s.
"Now we have about 30 mosques and places of prayer, and it's still not enough," he stressed.
Jack Jedwab, executive director of the Association for Canadian Studies, also highlighted an increasing number of Muslim students among the Muslim community in Canada.
"By the time the data are collected in the 2011 census, if they are collected, there may be more Muslim than Protestant students in Montreal schools," he told the daily.
Outnumbering Jews
The census shows that for the first time Muslims outnumber Jews, a demographic that could ultimately affect this country's position vis-a-vis the Arab-Israeli conflict.
"I would have to say with a caution that, yes, of course it is going to have an effect because politicians respond, of course to votes," said John Carson, a professor of Canadian foreign policy at the University of Toronto.
According to the census, the number of Jews also increased between 1991 and 2001, but only by 3.7 per cent to 329,995.
And the proportion they represent of the total Canadian population declined to 1.1 per cent from 1.2 per cent.
The census data show Roman Catholics are still by far the largest group in Quebec.
The 5.9 million Catholics in 2001 were up by 1.3 percent, although they declined to 83.2 percent from 86 percent of the population.
Protestants declined a little in both absolute and percentage terms. However, Baptists rose by 28.9 percent to almost 35,455.
According to the census, Christian Orthodox rose 12.4 percent, Buddhists 30.8 percent, Hindus 73.7 percent, Sikhs 81.7 percent.
Just for the record, there are 600,000 muslims in Canada and depending on how they are counted, between 6 and 10 million in the U.S.
11 posted on 01/01/2004 5:54:49 PM PST by albertabound
the american melting pot had the luxury of ethnically cleansing out british loyalists, genociding the indians and disenfranchising blacks... it's a lot easier to impose your one size fits all constitution on a diverse society once you've silenced the loudest members of the opposition
canada is a little different... the british occupation and the royal proclamation of 1760 recognized french canadian rights to continue to enjoy their own courts and civil law that had existed there for over 100 years... the english occupiers were in the minority and had to put their political differences aside if they were to survive the canadian winter together
nevertheless, american continental seperatist propaganda interpreted the 1760 acts as "intolerable" heretical surrender to subversive roman catholic interests and used it to fuel popularity for the american war of independence... all the more reason to appease the french canadian peasants what with the american war of independence on the horizon
that this principle of multiculturalism was firmly established in the canadian constitution of 1867 and the 1982 charter of rights constitution is a credit to canadian politics... that we've held it together this long without resorting to civil war
civil war amounts to nothing... look at europe... for five hundred they did nothing but fight over kingship, then religion, then finally they began fighting over the nationalist ideals we thought we'd put to rest with the end of the nazis... and when they put it all behind them and formed the european union it looks like little more than a copy of canadian federalism
the constitution of 1867 gave specific powers to the provinces in order that the french and english could run their own social affairs while the federal government could handle such things as war and commerce
the 1982 charter went further and recognized that indians and women were worthy of explicit government protection even if they didn't control any provincial legislature... the courts have also written new law into the general equality clause to include protection of homosexuals... there is an explicit understanding that groups are worthy of protection not only to protect individuals from being singled out for discrimination, but to help them preservie their group status
it is only natural that our political tradition allows us to assimilate people as a group, rather than expecting them to abandon their group affiliation and try to assimilate as individuals
we've already allowed indians a large degree of self government including some discretion over criminal law... why not muslims? in my mind it's the perfect way to assimilate them, teach them canadian values of tolerance in a way that they can appreciate
13 posted on 01/02/2004 3:28:25 PM PST by the_french_gynecologist
To: the_french_gynecologist
... the 1982 charter went further and recognized that indians and women were worthy of explicit government protection even if they didn't control any provincial legislature...
Woooo weeeee! You guys really are cutting edge aren't you?
... why not muslims? in my mind it's the perfect way to assimilate them, teach them canadian values of tolerance in a way that they can appreciate.
IOW's make the muslims as dumb and ineffectual as the rest of you and no one will have to worry.
14 posted on 01/02/2004 5:16:00 PM PST by TigersEye ("Where there is life there is hope!" - Terri Schiavo)


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Q: Quantification using Salmon in RNA-seq - what is the correct transcript file to use? I am analysing C. elegans RNA-seq data and wanting to use Salmon for quantification. I would like to look at transposons, so I thought I should use Salmon as any transposons reads normally multi-map and Salmon can deal with this. I am unsure of the transcript fasta files I should be using. I know I need to use release W280 to be the same as our colloborators (https://downloads.wormbase.org/releases/WS280/species/c_elegans/PRJNA13758/). Does anyone know which .fa file I should be using?
I tried using the CDS_transcripts file, running this line of code:
salmon quant -i /mnt/shared/projects/uosa/Helder_Ferreira/polya_rna_sequencing/analysis/4_salmon_index/index -l A -1 WTCHG_945386_73365312_1.fastq.gz -2 WTCHG_945386_73365312_2.fastq.gz -o WTCHG_945386_73365312 --validateMappings

I then imported the counts into R using the following lines of code:
# load packages
library(tximport)
library (rtracklayer)

# import gtf file from data folder in this file path
gtf_file <- file.path(data_file_path, 'c_elegans.PRJNA13758.WS280.canonical_geneset.gtf')
gtf_file

# create data frame from gtf file to convert transcript_id to gene_id
annotation_transcript <- elementMetadata(import(gtf_file), feature.type="transcript")
colnames(annotation_transcript)
head(annotation_transcript)
transcript_to_gene \<- annotation_transcript\[, c("transcript_id", "gene_id")\]
head(transcript_to_gene) # data frame to convert transcript id --> gene_id

# import sample information
sample_info_file <- file.path(file_path, 'sample_info.tsv')
sample_info <- read.delim(sample_info_file, row.names=1, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
sample_info
head(sample_info)

# can now import salmon quant.sf files
# each sample has its own separate folder in the data parent folder

samples <- rownames(sample_info)
samples

salmon_file_path <- file.path(data_file_path, 'salmon_raw')
quantfiles <- file.path(salmon_file_path, samples, 'quant.sf')
quantfiles

txi_gene <- tximport(quantfiles, type="salmon", tx2gene = transcript_to_gene, ignoreTxVersion=TRUE, txOut=FALSE, ignoreAfterBar=TRUE)

I get this error:
reading in files with read.delim (install 'readr' package for speed up)
Error in readInfRepFish(x, type) :
  importing inferential replicates for Salmon or Sailfish requires package `jsonlite`.
  to skip this step, set dropInfReps=TRUE

I beleive it must be something to do with the transcript_ids in the quant.sf files and the transcript_ids in the gtf file not being the same based off this discussion (https://support.bioconductor.org/p/106319/). The transcript_ids in the qaunt.sf file look like this:
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Whereas in the .gtf file they look like this and don't match with the quant.sf file:
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Does anyone know how to fix this? I am a bit stuck! Thank you in advance :)

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Wow! Please update to 64bit! Don't know what I would do for 8mm effect if this app went away.
This is awesome! I like all the new features and look. At this point I couldn't think of anything else this app needs except maybe some refinement on the added features. For instance, I love the extra controls for grain, scratches, etc but I wish there were some preloaded presets instead of just default. However, this is soooo minor in regards to such a great app.
I have been using this app for a few years now and I still love it. I just got an iPhone 5 and the processing is now very acceptable.
Still love this app to death.
Still a great app, after all of these years it's really the only realistic 8mm app I have found. On par with some of the 3rd party plugins that can be purchased for Final Cut X, but at a fraction of the price.
Works on iPhone 6+ but since there hasn't been an update in quite awhile it appears to be abandoned, thats too bad... always thought the color and quality of the film was worth having such a huge file. The other super 8 apps just don't have what I'm looking for, this one does.
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I still can't believe I've been to Santorini, I remember scrolling down on my Instagram feed seeing bloggers or celebrities photos and dreaming I could be there. Still can't believe I've been to Santorini, no other destination has been able to top it. I decided to create a list of things to help those who are planning on visiting Santorini.
I suggest hiring a quod bike instead of a car, its roughly the same price and the island is small so you really don't need a car.
Visit the volcanos, check Tholos Naftilos for a cool experience.
Watch the sunset in Oia, get there early for a good spot because it quickly fills up with people.
If your hotel room has a pool then watch the sunset from there, its an awesome experience.
Visit the Ancient Thera, a antique city on a high Messavouno mountain.
Visit Akrotiri Lighthouse located on the extreme southwest part of the island. Perfect if you want a quieter place to watch the sunset.
If you like history/culture check out Episkopi Gonias a village near the Capital of Fira. Village was almost destroyed by an earthquake in 1956, as a result residents moved near the coast. You can still see buildings where residents lived as well as a breathtaking view of Santorini.
Visit Ekklisia Theoskepasti. Great view from the middle of the island, walk down and you'll see a chapel on the edge.
Just relax and take the breathtaking views in.


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Everytown For Gun Safety Action Fund Endorses Theresa Greenfield for U.S. Senate in Iowa
Theresa Greenfield has Made Gun Safety a Priority; in the U.S. Senate She'll Fight for Common-Sense Gun Safety Laws to Protect Iowans
NEW YORK – Today, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund endorsed Theresa Greenfield for U.S. Senate in Iowa, lauding her commitment to gun safety. Earlier this year, Greenfield received the Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate Distinction, a prerequisite for being considered for endorsement.
Theresa Greenfield has made common-sense gun safety solutions a priority in her campaign, and credits her farm upbringing for her support of responsible gun ownership. Greenfield supports background checks on all gun sales, closing the "boyfriend loophole," which allows domestic abusers to purchase guns, and the implementation of red flag laws.
Greenfield's opponent, Senator Joni Ernst, opposes common-sense gun legislation and has benefited from more than $3 million in financial support from the gun lobby. She has fallen in line with the gun lobby's dangerous agenda and refused to support common-sense gun laws.
"Theresa Greenfield will fight for common-sense gun safety laws while her opponent, Joni Ernst, has decided to take orders and millions in political support from the gun lobby," said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. "Everytown is proud to support Greenfield, who is the gun sense champion Iowans deserve."
"Time and time again, Joni Ernst has refused to support common-sense gun laws, putting special interest money ahead of Iowans' safety," said Katie Albrecht, a volunteer with the Iowa chapter of Moms Demand Action. "Iowans deserve a Senator who will put our safety first, that's why we're proud to support Theresa Greenfield for Senate. Our grassroots volunteers will work tirelessly over the next five months to send Theresa to Washington."
State polling shows that 75 percent of Iowans support extreme risk laws, and that Iowa voters generally support stronger gun safety laws by a 3:1 margin. In a national survey of 2,500 likely voters, 85 percent of respondents favored Congress passing an extreme risk bill, as well as 78 percent of gun owners.
Polling released last month demonstrates the surging intensity of Americans' support for common-sense gun safety measures during the coronavirus pandemic, with a significant majority of Americans viewing background checks on all gun sales and disarming domestic abusers "more important" now than before the pandemic began.
Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and Victory Fund plan to spend at least $60 million on the 2020 elections — double what they spent during the 2018 elections, and more than any gun safety opponent, including the NRA, reported spending on the 2016 elections.
The US gun homicide rate is 25 times higher than that of other high-income countries.


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